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Wumpus Tracker -- FREEWARE
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by H.L. Fuller/VT 76164,3656
Wumpus Tracker is a <<FREE>> Windows applet which functions
as a kind of scratch pad. You can use it to make notes
as you explore the Wumpus realm. At the conclusion of
a round, you can click one button to clear the
scratch pad and get ready for a new game.
The applet is very rudimentary. The single form presents
a numbered array of 20 pairs of text boxes, each corresponding to
one of the 20 rooms in Hunt the Wumpus. You can
use one box in a numbered pair to note the rooms which
connect to the numbered room. You can use the other
box to make notes about hazards & wumpi, present
or nearby.
To use the Tracker, open it when you are playing
Hunt the Wumpus. Use your mouse to make Tracker
the active window and to position your cursor
in the text box you want to use. Then just type your
notes.
As you play, you'll be moving back and forth between
the Wumpus window and the Tracker window.
Things I would fix if I did this again include...
o ... the size and the position of the tracker window.
As is, it overlaps the Wumpus game window. You have to
drag each to opposite corners so that you can view
both windows at once. Yukko.
o ..."automated updating." It wouldn't be hard to
toggle up code which automatically inserts implications
in the text boxes associated with rooms other than the
room you are currently in. I thought about doing this,
but I decided it would kind of take the sport out of Hunt the Wumpus.
Plus it was a nice sunny day and I felt like going outside.
Source code is here, so if anybody feels like fooling around
with it and souping it up a bit, go for it. I'd like to
know about and try out improved versions, so if you don't
mind dropping me a note if/when you jazz it up, I'd appreciate it.
Hope you find it useful...
;->,
-- HeST.